June 25, 2013
Tags: Blue Regency, Charles Lamb, Johnson Brothers, laudanum, Norton Anthology of English Literature, Thomas De Quincey, William Hazlitt
Thanks to a chilly morning which got my annual yard sale off to a slow start, I had the leisure to power through the Norton Anthology’s selection of Romantic period essayists, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and Thomas De Quincey. They were all fond of laudanum (opium dissolved in alcohol) which led the Norton editors to Read the Rest…
June 5, 2013
Tags: Norton Anthology of English Literature, Romantic period, Ulysses, William Blake, Women's Institute
It hit me the other day what I wanted to do for a summer reading project: read The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. I and II. Collective gasp all around. This venerable collection has been around a long time but I don’t believe anyone has actually read it—certainly not the college students for which Read the Rest…
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